Romania, Hungary, Georgia, and Azerbaijan launched a joint venture on September 3 to install a power line under the Black Sea aimed at bringing more renewable energy into the European Union from the eastern Caucasus.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on September 3 banned Russian athlete Tatyana Tomashova, a two-time world champion, for 10 years.
A new report by experts shared exclusively with the Associated Press suggests one of Tehran's most advanced missiles is far less accurate than previously thought.
A mudslide triggered by heavy monsoon rain hit a house in a remote part of northwestern Pakistan, killing 12 people, mostly children, rescue officials said on August 30.
Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on August 29.
The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top UN official warned on August 25.
Russia’s Supreme Court on August 20 extended the pretrial detention of three lawyers who once represented slain Russian opposition politician, Aleksei Navalny, and are now facing charges of extremism.
U.S. intelligence officials said August 19 they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics.
One of Russia’s most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing plumes of ash 5 kilometers into the sky over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East.
Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan received $359,000 from the government on August 13 as the country continues to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games.
A man accused of stabbing an 11-year-old girl in London’s bustling theater district was charged August 13 with attempted murder.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on August 12 that it was investigating a hack of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Bulgarian authorities seized some 436 kilograms of heroin at the Black Sea port of Burgas, the district prosecutor’s office said on August 12.
The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility on August 12 for a minivan explosion in the Afghan capital that killed at least one person.
Iran’s newly elected president reappointed a U.S.-educated official who came under United Nations sanctions 16 years ago as head of the country’s nuclear department, state TV reported on August 10.
Refugee breaker Manizha Talash, or “b-girl Talash,” was disqualified from the first ever Olympic breaking competition on August 9 after she wore a cape that said “Free Afghan Women."
Militants attacked three army posts in northwest Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan, triggering intense shootouts that killed three soldiers and four insurgents.
Afghanistan’s Taliban government on August 5 said it would allow people in the country on visas issued by the former Western-backed government to stay for now, but that they wouldn’t be allowed back in without documents from a Taliban-approved diplomatic mission.
Israel is already in a "multifront war" with Iran and its proxies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting on August 4, as the United States and allies prepared to defend Israel from an expected counterstrike and prevent an even more destructive regional conflict.
After 10 Olympic Games and 36 years, Nino Salukvadze says she's finally done. The pistol shooter from Georgia has been ever-present at the Summer Olympics since Seoul 1988, when she competed for what was still the Soviet Union.
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